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  • 2018-08-27 (xsd:date)
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  • Has the Medical Term 'Vagina' Been Replaced with the Phrase 'Front Hole?' (en)
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  • A LGBTQIA safe sex guide published by Healthline, a California health information provider, stirred up controversy in August 2018 when a number of conservative web sites took issue with Healthline's use of the term front hole to describe the genitalia of some transgender individuals. Those web sites presented Healthine's LGBTQIA Safe Sex Guide as if that organization had entirely replaced the term vagina with the term front hole. The Daily Caller, for example, employed the inaccurate and misleading headline San Fran Health Org Gets Rid of 'Vagina' in Favor of 'More Inclusive Front Hole.' NewsPressed filed a similar report incorrectly stating that Gender Fluid Nutcases were demanding that the vagina be called front hole. The Global Dispatch also wrongly asserted that QUILT BAG (a derogatory term for the LGBTQIA community) activists had won, as Healthline rename(d) vagina as ‘front hole’ [to] appease transgender men: None of these headlines accurately reflected how the terms front hole and vagina were used in Healthline's safe sex guide, and they left readers with the false impression that the word vagina was being replaced throughout the guide -- and perhaps among the larger medical community -- in favor of front hole. That wasn't the case. Many of the web sites that took issue with the use of the term front hole pointed to a section in Healthline's safe sex guide about gender-inclusive language: Although this passage, presented in isolation, may have fostered the impression that Healthline was replacing the word 'vagina' with 'front hole,' that wasn't what the organization wrote. Healthline stated that instead of solely using the medical term 'vagina,' they would also employ the term 'front hole.' The truth of that latter statement is evidenced by the fact that the word vagina appeared in the Healthline document 17 times (while front hole was used 16 times). Still, Healthline decided that their original explanation was poorly worded and eventually edited the section to better explicate when and why they used the term front hole: Both an archived version of the Healthline guide (captured before the above passage was edited) and the version available at the time of this writing included repeated use of the word vagina. Clearly then, Healthline did not get rid of or replace that word in favor or some other terminology. In addition to clarifying their explanation, Healthline also published an article titled We're Not Renaming the Vagina in response to the controversy that noted the additional usage of front whole by other health organizations and publications as well: In short, this controversy stemmed from a single health information provider's decision to use term front hole in addition to -- not in place of -- the word vagina in a safe sex guide created for the LGBTQIA community. (en)
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